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Accelerated Scouting: Tuesday, Period Five, Week Five

Aug 07, 2007 00:32

Dale has set up the main campire area to actually be... lots of little campfire areas.

There's also a heap of moddable food and cooking equipment sitting on the picnic tables ( Read more... )

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Start a fire! pieandcoffee August 7 2007, 04:41:10 UTC

Work together or individually. Just get that fire going!

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 06:01:15 UTC

River knew about this in theory. She picked up some dry twigs and leaves, then found a stone. She tried creating sparks by striking the stone against her pen knife.

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 07:10:47 UTC

Claire took another handful of twigs and dumped herself next to River, setting up both piles into a little cone structure like in the handbook.

"Hey."

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 07:28:55 UTC

"Hello, Claire." River looked thoughtful. "I believe this is the correct method."

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 07:31:21 UTC

"Then you're probably right," Claire tells her, watching the attempts. "You want a hand?"

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 07:34:45 UTC

"Yes, but not a burned one," River replied. "Catch the sparks?"

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 07:44:48 UTC

Claire had been reaching out to take the stone from Riverto have a trial, but now she frowned, confused.

"What?"

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 08:10:19 UTC

"Stone on metal create sparks. Catch it with a flammable material," River explained.

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 08:19:33 UTC

"Right," Claire said, both relieved and annoyed at herself for making the wrong assumption.

Glancing around, she grabbed one of the twigs and ripped off a stretch of bark, offering that forward to try and catch the sparks.

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 08:26:54 UTC

It took quite a few attempts, but finally a spark landed on the piece of bark and it caught fire, glowing faintly.

"Have to care fot it now. Feed it and protect it."

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 08:31:49 UTC

"That's why we've got this," Claire said, nodding at the twigs she'd set up first.

Sheltering the flane with her hand, and completely mindless of the heat, she brought the bark over a short way and touched it to a few places around the fire.

"See? We're all prepared from the camping trip."

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 08:41:17 UTC

"We are," River agreed, seeming to not pay attention to how close Claire's hand was to the flame. She held the twigs close to the glowing bark, mmaking them catch fire. "Feed it and it grows."

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 08:46:36 UTC

"Yeah, I got the metaphor," Claire said, teasing lightly.

Watching the fire creep up the various sticks, she put the bark down before the flame actually reached her fingers and leans forward to blow on areas and encourage it.

"When do we start cooking?"

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 08:53:28 UTC

River snorted at the teasing, but didn't seem offended. "Once it calms down. Heat but no flame."

Re: Start a fire! savedfornow August 7 2007, 09:01:08 UTC

"Right."

It made sense, and Claire would be the first to admit River knew more about her than... well, anything. So she sat back and waited.

"How's your week been?"

Re: Start a fire! moonbrain_tam August 7 2007, 09:07:39 UTC

River added wood to the fire, watching the flames engulf it. "Good," she said. "Gave Irulan a hat. Went to the moon and back and danced on frozen air. You?"

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